St. Kitts and Nevis Government has dismissed the rumours that the dual citizenship of Ramon Olorunwa Abbas better known Ray Hushpuppi was bought ‘by invesments’.
As reports had lately claimed that Hushpuppi gained citizenship of St. Kitts and Nevis by invesments, the federation’s government has now announced that he was actually a citizen through Marriage.
A fresh statement by the government of St. Kitts and Nevis as regards the citizenship of Hushpuppi who is currently facing fraud charges in the United States, and has appeared in court for allegedly conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cybercrime schemes, stated;
“We note that the Nigeria-born Mr. Abbas, 37, was granted a St. Kitts and Nevis passport in February 2020 by virtue of his marriage to Shawana Nakesia Chapman, 32, a citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis by birth and the United States of America. Ms. Chapman, a resident of North Carolina, USA, married Mr. Abbas in Nigeria in October 2018, thereby conferring him with the right to St. Kitts and Nevis citizenship.”
“Any suggestion that citizenship was obtained through means other than marriage– such as the country’s Citizenship by Investment program, which includes rigorous background checks – is therefore utterly false and willfully misleading.”
Hushpuppi’s lawyer Gal Pissetzky, has also recently come out to state that their client is not guilty of the charges levied against him.
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